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• Sat

  24

  Sep

  2016

  Policy, Awareness, Sustainability and Systems (PASS) -- Next Generation Research Challenges for Computational IS Research

  Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota

  During past decade IS/IT research has moved beyond its earlier primary
  concern regarding the */centrality/*of IS/IT construct to include the
  */vitality/*of IS/IT constructs for a vast array of problem domains. MIS
  researchers led the business research in the use of computer networks of
  business processes whether it was the use of novel mercantile mechanisms
  or the host of behavioral issues associated with anonymized behavior to
  nature of virtual office.Information technology fundamentally changed
  the problem characteristics, application environment and domain,
  incentives of participants, and above all technology provides new ways
  to measure and manipulate participants’ incentive. One of the roles of
  IS research is to*/pose new questions about old beliefs/*due to
  technological advances in IS/IT. We do that because MIS researchers are
  the first one to embrace technology as vital component in interaction
  with our surrounding environment.

  The workshop on Policy, Awareness, Sustainability and Systems (PASS) is
  an initiative of Workshop for Information Technology and Systems to
  encourage forward looking research in terms of problem domains,
  technological and methodological scope and its potential
  impact.Information is key to organizing a sustainable environment for
  the planet whether it is in terms of creating and managing food supply,
  energy, water or embedded devices that will provide new perceptory
  abilities to humans in the form of augmented reality and interactive
  decision environments.Building, testing, managing and controlling these
  new generation of technology would require an understanding that current
  data and approaches may not adequately be able to deal with.Yet
  appropriate guidelines and policies must be developed to avoid
  exploitation of new technology for potentially destructive purposes. The
  purpose of the PASS workshop is to invite researchers and scholars to
  discuss their forward looking research related to Information Systems
  and Technology and provide a forum for substantive discussion around a
  broad set of forward looking topics, not limited to the issues discussed
  above.Consistent with WITS theme, the methodological focus we encourage
  is that of computational, simulation and algorithmic strain.

  While a broad set of questions at different level of granularity are of
  interest, the following questions provide broad strokes of kinds of
  areas that may be of interest.

  ·Given the triple-bottom-line concept of sustainability that requires
  long-term simultaneous optimization of economical, ecological and social
  objectives, what are the implications on the traditional resource-based
  view? How could we model/analyze these seemingly unrelated objectives in
  a collective manner?

  ·What are the policy implications of the scenario wherein the cost of
  information is decreasing, but environmental resources (and resources
  derived from environmental resources) are becoming increasingly constrained?

  ·Traditional IT has focused on indicators based on built capital, for
  example, physical capacity, financial resources, human resources,
  etc.What are the methodological implications of relying on indicators –
  for example, those related to well-being and natural capital – do they
  provide a reflection of the reality?

  ·How do we design and develop systems that capture information that is
  attached to anything that is exchanged?

  The workshop will take place on Saturday September 24,^, 2016 at Carlson
  School of Management, the University of Minnesota.The participants will
  be provided accommodations for one night (Friday).There is no
  registration fee, however, the space is limited and will be provided on
  first come first serve basis.Interested presenters should send an
  abstract (One page) to Alok Gupta (alok@umn.edu <mailto:alok@umn.edu>)
  by September 2, 2016.